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Articles by Laurina Ayarah
3000+ of you are here. I'm not over it.
I just looked at my dashboard and saw something that made me stop scrolling: 3,011 followers on DEV. I want to sit here for a second and actually say thank you, properly, not just react with a heart emoji and move on. How this even started I'm Tobore. Some of you know me as Laurina Ayarah, the name still on my profile from before I started going by BuildWithTee. I'm a full-stack developer and a technical writer, and honestly, for a long time I thought I had to pick one.
I Found a Silent Bug in Formbricks That Crashes Live Surveys at Runtime
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry. Project Overview Formbricks is an open-source survey and experience management platform built with Next.js, TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS. It lets teams create and deploy surveys across websites, apps, and email. Developers can self-host it or use the cloud version. With over 12,000 GitHub stars and hundreds of contributors, it is one of the most actively maintained open source alternatives to Qualtrics.
The Hardest System I Ever Built Was for Patients Who Could Not Afford for It to Fail
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. There is a version of this story where I walk you through the technical challenges in a clean, detached voice. Structured. Professional. Composed. This is not that version. Seven months. A hundred pages of documentation written alongside the code, not after it. A live system serving rural clinics in Delta State, Nigeria.
Hey DEV, I'm Tobore. Let's actually connect.
Hey DEV, I'm Tobore. Let's actually connect. I've been on here for a while now, mostly writing and lurking, but I realized I don't actually know that many of you. So this is me fixing that. I'm based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I build websites, and I also do technical documentation and content writing. Most of what I write comes from projects I've actually built or shipped, not stuff I read about somewhere.
How AI Is Reshaping Software Development and the Tech Industry in 2026
Three weeks ago, I stopped writing to watch history unfold. What I witnessed in those twenty-one days changed everything I thought I knew about software development. An engineer at a Fortune 100 company reduced a nine-day pull request cycle to 2.4 days. A Latin American fintech company completed an eight-year migration project in weeks instead of years with a 12x efficiency improvement. TypeScript surpassed both Python and JavaScript to become the most-used language on GitHub for the first time.
Google Is Killing Gemini CLI on June 18. Here Is What to Do Before Then
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge If you have been using Gemini CLI to run agentic tasks from your terminal, you have until June 18, 2026 to migrate. After that date, requests stop being served for Google AI Pro, Ultra, and free-tier users. No warnings. No grace period. Just errors. That deadline is the most important thing to come out of Google I/O 2026 that most developers are not talking about.
Why Is the Tech Job Market So Brutal Right Now? (An Honest Look at What Changed)
I need to tell you something nobody wants to admit. The "learn to code and get a high-paying remote job" dream? It's not dead, but it's definitely on life support. And if you're sitting there wondering why you've sent 200 applications and gotten 3 responses (all rejections), or why that coding bootcamp certificate isn't opening doors as they promised, or why companies want "entry-level developers with 3 years of experience", you're not crazy.
What Clients ACTUALLY Want From Frontend Devs (Not Clean Code)
Clean code doesn't get you hired. This does. I learned this the hard way. I spent years obsessing over best practices. Learning the latest frameworks. Writing DRY code. Organizing my files perfectly. Following every convention I could find. Then I started working with real clients, and none of that mattered as much as I thought it would. Don't get me wrong, technical skills matter. But they're just the baseline. The entry ticket.
What Is My IP Address?
And Why It Actually Matters Ever wondered what that string of numbers is that websites see when you visit them? Or why some streaming services know you’re not actually in the US when you’re trying to watch that show? That’s your IP address at work. And whether you know it or not, it’s following you around the internet, telling websites where you are, who your internet provider is, and sometimes even blocking you from accessing content.
I Put an LLM in My Browser and Now It Writes My Commit Messages. The Results Were… Unexpected😭✨
Hi folks! Not long ago I posted an article about the funniest and weirdest commit messages from my projects (If You Think YOUR Commit Messages Are Bad, Just Wait…). The post itself was cool, but — as usual — your comments were pure gold. A few people pointed out that… 👉 “Why write commit messages yourself when AI can do it?” And then I thought: SAY. NO. MORE.
Is ChatGPT Making You Dumber? How to Use AI Without Killing Your Brain
YOU! Come here. Remember how we all wanted AI to make life easier? For school assignments. Better emails. Faster code. Better writing. Instant answers to absolutely everything. And it worked. But somewhere along the way, something changed. We stopped thinking. We stopped Googling. We stopped trying to figure things out on our own before asking AI to do it for us. And now? I’m starting to wonder if AI is quietly making us mentally lazy.
Building Delta Health: Frontend Adventures in Empowering Rural Clinics
I never thought I’d be building healthcare systems for rural clinics. And yet, here I am, late 2025, staring at lines of React code that feel like they might just save lives. I’m a frontend developer. My world usually revolves around components, state, and CSS. But this project “Delta State Health Information & Appointment Booking System” pulled me out of my comfortable bubble and threw me into a reality that’s messy, complex, and astonishingly human. Let me tell you what it’s like.
Your Web3 Product’s UX Is Driving Users Away.
As a frontend developer who’s watched countless people, parents, friends, newcomers try and fail to use Web3 applications, I need to be direct: most Web3 UX is unacceptably bad. Not “needs improvement” bad. Not “could be better” bad. It’s “watch someone give up in real-time” bad. This isn’t about aesthetics or minor usability tweaks. This is about fundamental barriers that prevent otherwise capable people from using your product at all.
I Learned React + Next.js in Three Months Without Watching a Single Tutorial.
I’m going to tell you something that sounds fake but isn’t: I built a full-stack healthcare booking system with React and Next.js before I ever watched a React tutorial. Not “I watched tutorials first, then built.” Not “I learned the basics then jumped in.” I just… built it. With zero React knowledge. Just JavaScript, Google, AI search tools, and pure desperation. And honestly? I still don’t know if that makes me brave or just stupid. LOL! How It Started (Badly) I was a computer science student.
It’s almost 2026: Why Are We Still Arguing About CSS vs Tailwind
Look, I need to be honest with you. I have a complicated relationship with Tailwind CSS. It’s like that friend who’s really good at everything, organised, efficient, always has their life together, but somehow makes you feel like a mess just by existing. I’m a plain CSS person. Always have been. Give me a .button class and a separate stylesheet, and I'm happy. But here we are in late 2025, almost 2026, and I can't stop thinking about Tailwind. Not because I love it (I don't), but because...
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